Found in southeastern Brazil at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial with a slender cane enveloped completely by brown, scarious, old sheaths and carrying above, a 2 to a few narrowly linear, conduplicate, acute leaves that blooms on a pendant, terminal, short, to 15 flowered inflorescence arising in the fall in Brazil.

This plant was found in a cloud forest at elevations around 300 meters near Salesopolis Brazil in dense cloud forest.

The Species Epidendrum janeirense Porto & Brade 1940 is said to be a synonym of this sp[ecies but pending better rerferences I have kept them separate.